These characters fight villains and keep people safe from harm. As children, we do not acknowledge the fact that these charters are vigilantes committing crimes themselves. Although these characters are technically criminals, many get sucked into the fantasy that they are promoting justice and they themselves are above the law. This vigilante theme is seen in the Troy Duffy film The Boondock Saints that came out in 1999. This film displays an adult version of the crime fighting vigilantes and how modern society might react to these characters.
Sin Nombre In Cary Fukunaga’s film, “Sin Nombre,” the audience engages in the tormenting but inspiring story of a young Honduran girl and a Mexican ex-gang banger trying to illegally trespass borders into the United States. The film portrays two parallel stories that tie up at the end of the saga. On one hand we have Willy; a young man who belongs to the feared gang of the Mara Salvatrucha in Honduras and recruits a little boy, Benito. After the little boy is initiated, the rest of the members including Willy beat him up. All covered in blood Benito still smiles to his commanders as a demonstration of strength and satisfaction to the “Mara’s” admission.
For example, when Bradley Cooper’s character works out a deal with the Officers so that they wouldn’t have to stay in jail over the weekend. He volunteered the boys to be used as a demonstration for the use of taser guns on criminals. The physical abuse and the situation is hilarious, but may be geared more to the present times. The gags and situations in these films are depicted differently for the audiences, as there is clearly a visual difference in the times the movies take place and the delivery of the material. The Hangover chose to use physical abuse to their advantage, where as Coming to America left went for a more situational, verbal approach.
Carol Reed uses cross-cutting, lighting and setting to build the atmosphere surrounding the film. The Third Man is formed by Reed to produce enthralling scenes that evoke and heighten the tension and excitement in the film with the use of cross-cutting, which occurs when the shots cut between two different sets of action. In one particular scene where Martins is trapped in the back of a speeding car, driven by an unidentified man, the audience believes he is being kidnapped but in actual fact he is being delivered to his own presentation. The tension is created with shots of old men and women stricken with poverty, rummaging through trash and gawking at the speeding car with the shot of Martins screaming at the driver, ‘have you got orders to kill me’. The audience makes the connection with the aid of the cross-cutting that presents Martins as being taken to be killed.
Wilson pulled his car up and told Brown and his friend to get out of the street. Then, Michael Brown refused and started cussing at the cop. What happened after that remains a mystery, as the stories range from Brown punching Darren Wilson first to Wilson opening fire. However, the fact remains that if Brown hadn’t been jaywalking, and if he would have listened to Darren Wilson, there’d be no reason for Wilson to use deadly force. After Brown started cussing at Darren Wilson, Wilson said that Brown started beating him up, and eventually reached inside the SUV for his gun.
After being asked by curt why he is not afraid of being caught by police, he answers "Statistical fact, cops will never pull a real man with a huge bong in his car. Why? They fear this man, they know he sees further than they and will bind them with ancient logics." By his answer, he seems to have uncommon, but keen thinking, which is also shown as the movie progresses, even affecting where the plot goes. On the way
The message is clear – the gang is here.” . Lastly gangs use intimidation to demonstrate their power “The gangs do not dominate life here but there are many people in this city - and across the country - who live in fear of teenagers in black.”This is also shown by Golding when Jack forms his own tribe all the boys are easily identifiable by the blood of the pigs painted on there face "They understand only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought". Just as the trackies hide the gangsters from the police the paint hides the boys from seeing the savages they have become.Jack and the hunters do a similar ritual as graffiti when they offer the pigs head to the beast “the head is for the
This is a great example of the use of the rhetoric, ethos’s because he is basing his decision of not guilty, off of principles and morals rather than evidence shown, and wants to first discuss and way all the evidence of the case, rather than just making a quick decision because it seems that the logical answer would be guilty. After they start to discuss the evidence that was presented in court it is brought up by one of the jurors that the switch blade used in the murder was very unique and that it would be highly unlikely that someone else would have had the same exact knife as the boy and used it stab the victim. This is where number starts to use the rhetoric; of logo’s by revealing that had he had been walking in the boy’s neighborhood after the trail a knife that was the exact same one as the one found at the murder scene just two blocks from the boys home. He then goes on to explain that this proves that the boy could be telling the truth , about losing the knife in his neighborhood on the way home , and that the knife may not be as hard to come by as they may have thought. By bringing this up and providing evidence that could disprove what was presented in court , juror number 8
The main character, Leonard, is a man who cannot make new memories since the rape and murder of his wife, and who has devoted his life to attempting to get revenge for his wife’s death. His character is played by Guy Pearce. The other main characters in the film are Leonard’s friend, Teddy, played by Joe Pantoliano, and Natalie, a woman helping Leonard in his quest, played by Carrie-Anne Moss. The acting is all very convincing, especially that of Leonard, which significantly adds to the feel of the movie. Much as Inception confused the viewers by taking the characters into dreams-within-dreams, Memento confuses its viewers by telling two separate parts of the story at once, one part in reverse chronological order in color, interspersed with forward chronological shots in black and white.
He has to deal with the most frightening nature of the justice system facing the death penalty. There is a sense of judgment from the courtroom that because Steve is young and black, he is likely to have committed the crime in the eyes of the jurors because he has been arrested, and he must have done it because the police and the prosecution witnesses wouldn’t lie. In addition to this, Steve becomes very timid while filled with despair knowing that he has been accused of a crime he didn’t commit. He states early in the novel, “Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie.